Fluoride & Bone Cancer: Is Harvard Professor Hiding a Link?

Did a Harvard dental professor, who moonlights as a consultant to Colgate, suppress evidence linking fluoride to bone cancer in children? A study done by a PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School was hidden away in their library until someone from the Environmental Working Group and the Fluoride Action Network discovered a copy in 2001. It's conclusions were startling.

It is entirely possible that Dr. Douglass may have suppressed the PhD thesis conclusions of Dr. Elise Bassin, at that time a PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School of Dentistry, whose paper and data suggests a very strong link between fluoridation and Osteosarcoma in boys. Bassin has not given interviews concerning her research since the paper's publication, but continues to stand behind her work in that study.

At the time of the Bassin study release, Douglass promised he would research and publish another paper showing that there was no connection between cancer and fluoridated water.

Because of his connections as a consultant with Colgate Corporation, a company that manufactures and strongly promotes dental products based on fluoride content, Harvard University conducted an in-house investigation to determine if Douglass had displayed any conflict of interest by suppressing his student's information. Of course, Harvard found no problem with their own professor's actions (in-house investigations are comparable to the fox guarding the henhouse). Douglass has since retired from the University.

UPDATE: 28 July 2011 - Dr. Douglas had promised to release a research paper showing no connection between fluoride and cancer before he retired from Harvard. Apparently, Douglas has now published his paper after more than a decade. We at the Fluoride Action Network will be updating our presentations to reflect the content of that paper. Meanwhile, the news announcement can be seen at:
http://www.iadr.org/files/public/JDRNewsRelease__Osteosarcoma.pdf

Proponents of fluoridation were quickly alerted to the release of this paper as the American Dental Association released a news article in support of Douglass' paper and of fluoridation today, despite the fact that the study's contents have just been released.

29 July 2011 - After reading the paper by Dr. Chester Douglas, et al, representatives of the Fluoride Action Network have discovered the following:

It wasn't just Colgate that paid Chester Douglass. According to the Acknowledgements section of the osteosarcoma/fluoride study, Douglass "has written reviews of the literature for several companies that sell, reimburse for, or do research on preventive dentistry products, most notably GlaxoSmithKline, Colgate-Palmolive, Dentsply, Quintile, Delta Dental Plans, and the United States Public health Service (USPHS)." All of these organizations spend millions of dollars to promote fluoridation throughout the U. S., and continually ignore scientific evidence that is contrary to their promotion. This places considerable conflict of interest on the new study and its conclusions.

C Hayes (co-author) "has done limited consulting with Procter & Gamble."

The osteosarcoma/fluoride manuscript is based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DrPH in the Department of Epidemiology (F M Kim).

More to come -

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[Sheny1234]

face It. there are people among you who are no better than the criminals In the jails across this country. Their free to walk because the laws allow them to murder by Injection. You see a person speak proper, dress well who drives a nice auto who works for a giant company who Is a criminal which Is a fact. Fluoride Is highly toxic, lethal. wonder why were sick and dropping dead? Tyrants roam this nation like predators In the African plains, killers mass murderers. Sounds harsh don't It?

[UMakeTheConnection]

@manque15 It's catchy these days... from where I stand, the majority are lying to us. This dude sold his soul to Colgate.

[thepossessor]

@CocaineDrRockso yeah same here!

[thepossessor]

yes because he is going to ADMIT to a cover-up

[iltrgb123]

if there is absolutely no medical or dental indication for the oral administration of fluoride , then why are we having this discussion anyway?

[CocaineDrRockso]

@jstb0b my water hear smells like peppers its poisoned.

[CocaineDrRockso]

im glad i use organic toothpaste

[jstb0b]

and we wonder why americans seem so dumb. the corporate elite are today's ruling monarchs. they're under the guise of such terms as 'free market' and 'democracy.' they can do that which harms others but we aren't allowed to do what we want with our own body? i go to jail for smoking grass to temporarily escape the madness, but ceos, politicians, and scientists get to continue their experiments? my health wasn't affected but what they are doing affects the health of millions. land of the free?

[HoodwinkedbyanAngel]

IF YOU WANT TO GET SICK ...I will show you how much poision is in the FLORIDA TAP WATER SUPPLY { DRINKING FL tap WATER IS POISON }.

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i MADE A VIDEO showing how after only 7 months of drinking this poison that comes out of the tap what happened to me...BLEEDING LEGIONS AND PEICES OF SKIN THE SIZE OF DIMES falling out of my ears...no joke...

i SPENT 3 days and over 100 phone calls & not only would no lawyer take the case

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The SCUMBAGS THAT PUT THE POISON IN THE WATER KNOW THIS!

[XXTheRealMcCoyXX]

It doesn't even straighten teeth... = S

there dumping byproduct and chemical waste into the water... That's how the get rid of rubbish.